RE: Mexican Murals - Frida Kahlo's Mask Adivsory [CCC's Street Art Contest #6]
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Great work... and it's cool to see that Frida Kahlo is still being recognized with Diego Rivera, great muralist. There was an exhibition in Quebec about them this summer in Québec (Source) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=eSHh7oKc-5c
Frida's portrait has become an icon...
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Hahaha, I would even go so far as saying: Frida Kahlo is recognized even without / apart from Diego Rivera. And that is not even so much for the painter that she was, but for the woman that she was.
Exactly, Diego is the forgotten one now and Frida is the star and it's well deserved as you say given her talent / her life.
Well, Diego is still far from forgotten. He's made it to the annals of Mexican art history, where he shares the pedestal with Orozco and Siqueiros. But Frida has become a pop-icon. Kinda like a Che Guevara. To the point where many people, when asked to name a Mexican painter, could mention her, and probably nobody else. Which is why memes of this kind are flourishing:
